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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






2. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






3. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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4. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






5. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






6. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






7. Multisensory Structured Language Education






8. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






9. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






10. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






11. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






12. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






13. r-controlled syllable






14. Closed syllable






15. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






16. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






17. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






18. Final stable syllable

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19. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






20. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






21. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






22. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






23. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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24. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






25. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






26. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






27. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






28. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






29. Wide Range Achievement Test






30. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






31. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






32. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






33. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






34. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






35. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






36. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






37. Academic Language Therapy Association






38. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






39. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






40. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






41. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






42. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






43. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






44. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






45. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






46. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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47. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






48. Individual Educational Plan






49. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






50. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning